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Accentor collaris, ALPINE ACCENTOR. 



Sturnus collaris, Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 131 



(1769). 



Accentor alpinus, Naum. iii. p. 940 ; Macg. ii. p. 258 ; 

 Hewitson, p. 96 ; Gray, p. 60 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 239 ; 

 id. ed. 3, i. p. 249 ; Gould, ii. pi. 54 ; Harting, p. 102. 

 Accentor collaris, Newton, i. p. 296 ; Dresser, iii. p. 29. 

 Alpine Accentor, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 219. 



Collaris = with a conspicuous neck, collum. 



This species has occurred in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, 

 Suffolk, Essex, Sussex, Devon, Gloucestershire, and Wales 

 in all, about a dozen times in Great Britain. It inhabits the 

 mountains of Central and Southern Europe. 



[Subfamily MIMING. 

 Genus MIMUS, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Mlmus fiifMos, a mimic. 



Mimus polyglottus. NORTHERN MOCKING-BIRD. 

 Turdus polyglottos, Linn. S. N. i. p. 293 (1766). 



Polyglottus = TroXvyXwrros, many-tongued ; from TTO\VS -f yXwrra. 



Specimens imported in cages occasionally escape ; but there 

 is no authentic instance of this common North- American bird 

 having occurred wild in Europe.] 



Family CINCLID.E. 



Genus CINCLUS, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 808 



(1802). 



Cinclus = K/yicXos, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, from the characteristic 

 motion of which the verb Kty/eXi^en/ = to wag the tail, was formed. Probably 

 akin to KeXXw = I move, with a nasal reduplication. 



Cinclus aquaticus. DIPPER. 



Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstem, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 206 



(1802). 

 Cinclus aquaticus, Naum. iii. p. 925 ; Hewitson, p. 77; Yarr. 



